Categories
A two-level taxonomy. Tools may appear in several categories; the primary one defines the breadcrumb on its page. Counts include only published entries.
Artificial Intelligence
65 toolsModels, assistants, inference engines, agent frameworks and the tooling around them.
- AI assistants & chatEnd-user conversational assistants and chat products.4
- Model providers & APIsHosted foundation-model APIs and developer platforms.10
- Local LLM inference & servingRunning and serving models on your own hardware.13
- Training & fine-tuningLibraries and services for training, fine-tuning and distributing models.14
- Agent frameworks & orchestrationFrameworks for building tool-using, multi-step LLM applications and agents.14
- Coding agents & AI IDEsAI pair programmers, autonomous coding agents and AI-native editors.6
- Prompting, evaluation & observabilityPrompt management, evaluation harnesses, tracing and LLM observability.9
- Embeddings, reranking & retrievalEmbedding models, rerankers and retrieval building blocks.10
- Voice, vision & multimodal AISpeech, image, video and multimodal models and tools.6
Software development
72 toolsLanguages, editors, terminals, version control, CI/CD, testing and documentation.
- Programming languages & runtimesLanguages, runtimes and package managers.14
- IDEs & editorsIntegrated development environments and code editors.8
- Terminals & shellsTerminal emulators, shells, multiplexers and prompt tooling.7
- Version control & code hostingGit tooling and code-hosting forges.5
- CI/CD & build automationContinuous integration, delivery and build systems.8
- Testing & QAUnit, integration, end-to-end and accessibility testing tools.10
- Documentation toolingStatic site generators and documentation systems for software.5
- API development & toolingFrameworks, specification tools and clients for building and consuming APIs.9
- Web frameworks & UIFront-end and full-stack web frameworks, styling and component systems.18
Infrastructure & operations
53 toolsContainers, provisioning, networking, security, identity and backup.
- Containers & virtualizationContainer runtimes, orchestration and virtual machines.5
- Infrastructure & provisioningInfrastructure-as-code, configuration management and process supervision.6
- Reverse proxies & web serversHTTP servers, reverse proxies and TLS automation.4
- DNS & domainsRegistrars, DNS providers and certificate authorities.4
- Tunneling & remote accessVPNs, overlay networks, tunnels and remote shells.5
- Monitoring & observabilityMetrics, logs, traces, uptime and alerting.6
- Security toolsScanners, hardening and application-security tooling.6
- Identity & accessAuthentication, authorization, passkeys and SSO.5
- Secrets managementVaults, key management and secret distribution.5
- Backup & recoveryBackup, snapshot and restore tooling.4
- Cloud & hosting providersCloud platforms, dedicated servers and hosting services.10
Apple platforms & Apple Silicon
35 toolsmacOS automation, Apple Silicon machine learning, Swift and distributed Mac computing.
- macOS automationScripting, scheduling and automation on macOS.10
- Apple Silicon ML & MLXMachine-learning frameworks and runtimes optimised for Apple Silicon.11
- Swift & SwiftUI developmentSwift language, SwiftUI and Apple developer tooling.5
- macOS system utilitiesSystem tools, package managers and utilities for macOS.5
- Distributed & parallel computingFrameworks and schedulers for distributing work across machines.9
Data engineering & databases
82 toolsCollecting, moving, storing, querying, visualising and validating data.
- Data collection & crawlingCrawlers, scrapers, browser automation and extraction services.13
- Search & web-data APIsWeb search, news and answer APIs for applications and agents.9
- Web archivingCapturing, preserving and replaying web content.4
- ETL/ELT & orchestrationPipelines, transformations and workflow orchestration.6
- Messaging & queuesMessage brokers, streaming platforms and job queues.6
- Relational databasesSQL databases and their extensions.12
- NoSQL & key-value storesDocument, key-value, graph and wide-column stores.4
- Vector databasesPurpose-built vector stores and similarity search engines.10
- Analytical engines & OLAPColumnar engines, query engines and in-process analytics.14
- DataFrames & array computingIn-memory tabular and array libraries.7
- BI & dashboardsBusiness-intelligence and dashboarding platforms.6
- Notebooks & interactive computingComputational notebooks and literate programming environments.4
- Data catalogs & formatsCatalogs, table formats and metadata management.5
- Data visualizationCharting and visualization libraries and tools.7
- Data quality & validationSchema validation, testing and quality monitoring for data.4
Academic research
80 toolsDiscovery, writing, typesetting, statistics, econometrics and financial research data.
- Literature discovery & reviewScholarly search engines, graphs and review assistants.11
- Citation managementReference managers and bibliography tooling.5
- LaTeX & typesettingTeX distributions, editors and document converters.8
- Academic writing & publishingWriting environments, reproducible documents and manuscript tooling.8
- Mathematical & statistical computingStatistical languages, environments and numerical libraries.20
- Reproducibility & research softwareEnvironments, registries and tooling for reproducible research.6
- Econometrics & causal inferenceEconometric and causal-inference libraries and packages.10
- High-frequency financial analysisIntraday data handling, microstructure and time-series tooling.12
- Market & fundamentals dataPrice, fundamentals and macroeconomic data providers.17
- SEC/EDGAR & corporate filingsRegulatory filings access and parsing.2
- Research disseminationPreprint servers, repositories and identifiers.9
Finance, real estate & business
40 toolsInvesting, portfolios, property valuation, GIS, construction and business systems.
- Financial analysis & investingAnalysis platforms, backtesting and quantitative finance libraries.10
- Portfolio & wealth managementPortfolio tracking, optimisation and risk.3
- Real estate valuation & property dataAppraisal, hedonic modelling, listings and property registries.6
- GIS & mappingGeographic information systems, map data and geospatial libraries.12
- Construction estimating & quantity surveyingCost databases, takeoff and estimating software.3
- Open & public dataGovernment statistics, open-data portals and public datasets.13
- CRM & business operationsCustomer relationship, invoicing and operations tooling.2
Productivity & knowledge
21 toolsNotes, knowledge management, design and collaboration.